New KDE 5 release

KDE lovers, you are going to enjoy this news. Eric Hameleers has just published his latest KDE 5 packages, consisting of KDE Framework 5.8.0, Plasma 5.2.2, and Applications 14.12.3 plus the latest updates of the KDE 4 Long Term Support (LTS) packages kdelibs, kdepimlibs, kdepim, kdepim-runtime and kde-workplace for Slackware-Current users.

The highlights of this 5_15.03 March release are:

• KDE Frameworks have been updated to 5.8.0 (includes two new Frameworks: KPeople and KXmlRpcClient)
• KDE Plasma has been updated to 5.2.2 (bugfixes only)
• KDE Applications have been updated to 14.12.3 (bugfix release, no new KF5 ports)
• KDE Extragear was updated with version 2.9.1 of the Calligra office suite
• The “deps” directory for this release contains two updates to stock Slackware packages: libwpd and grantlee. These version bumps are required by the new versions of calligra and kdepim respectively
• And there’s two new “deps” packages as well: librevenge and libodfgen. Both of those are required for the new version of libwpd

As always, please read the accompanying README for instructions on installation/upgrade procedure. Some notes:

Upgrading to this KDE 5 is non-trivial. You will have to remove old KDE packages manually. If you do not have KDE installed at all, you will have to install some of Slackware’s own KDE 4 packages manually

Go get them from these mirrors:

• http://alien.slackbook.org/ktown/
• sync URI: rsync://alien.slackbook.org/alien/ktown/
• http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/
• rsync URI: rsync://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/
• http://repo.ukdw.ac.id/alien-kde/
• rsync URI: rsync://repo.ukdw.ac.id/alien-kde/
• http://slackware.org.uk/people/alien-kde/
• rsync URI: rsync://slackware.org.uk/people/alien-kde/